"If I throw something at you and you get hurt, then the party is going to be done. Then we're all going to look bad and it's going to be a terrible night."

Banks claimed Crowe turned to her and leaned in to whisper in her ear. "Even if you tried, you wouldn't even get close enough, you n----r."

"Next thing you know, I'm getting choked up, I'm getting dragged out of this room and spat on. I felt betrayed, I felt humiliated, I felt low. It almost felt like a set-up," Banks said.

Other eyewitnesses told TMZ a different version of the events leading up to Banks' ejection from the party, saying she had threatened to stab guests with a broken glass. Crowe grabbed her in a "bear hug" and carried her into the hotel corridor, they said.

Banks said she was pressing charges because Crowe had refused to apologise. "I didn't want to press charges because dealing with the police, dealing with the courts is such an inconvenient thing. I don't want this happening. They say I'm doing this for attention. Who wants this kind of attention?" she said.

"He doesn't get it. He thinks I'm just some little black girl from Harlem that doesn't have any backing. They think they can just frame me."